''Monilea lentiginosa'' is a
species of
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
, a marine
gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk in the
family Trochidae, the top snails.
[Marshall, B. (2014). Monilea lentiginosa (A. Adams, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=718867 on 13 July 2014]
The Australian Faunal Directory considers ''Monilea lentiginosa''
Adams, 1853 to be a synonym of ''
Monilea callifera
''Monilea callifera'', common name shrewd trochid, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
The Australian Faunal Directory recognizes '' Monilea lentiginosa'' Adams, 1853 as a synonym of ...
''
(Lamarck, 1822)
Description
The size of the shell varies between 12 mm and 24 mm. The umbilicate, very solid shell has a conical shape. It is lusterless with a whitish color, unicolored or obscurely striped or maculate with brown or buff. The
spire is conical with an acute
apex. The sutures are impressed. The 6 to 7
whorl
A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).
Whorls in nature
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s are convex, the last with a tendency to be flattened around the middle. The entire surface is covered with sharp close uneven spiral riblets with deeply incised interstices, and very fine, close, longitudinal growth lamellae, forming compressed beads on the lirae, and generally lamellae in the interstices. The oblique
aperture is rounded-quadrangular, with 10 or 11 plicae within, which attain the edge of the
lip. The short
columella is toothed below, concave and somewhat expanded above. The
umbilicus contains within a smooth, not very prominent, funicle.
H. Pilsbry (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
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Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Central Indo-West Pacific and Australia ( Queensland - New South Wales)
References
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Gastropods described in 1851